Concession Speech

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - John Adams

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb

To receive a benefit is to sell your liberty. - Laberius

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

Those who trade liberty for security have neither. - John Adams

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? - Charles de Gaulle

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. - Lao Tzu

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. - Daniel Webster

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. - Thomas Carlyle

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. - Jack Nicholson

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. - Gore Vidal

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. - Zell Miller

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. - Fidel Castro

We don't have inflation because we are living too well. We have it because government is living too well. - Ronald Reagan

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. - Louis D Brandeis

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in. - John F Kennedy

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas